HyperX Predator M.2 PCIe G2 x4 480GB @ LanOC Reviews

Stefan Mileschin · 11th May 2015, 08:14

Last week I took a look at Kingston's latest HyperX SATA SSD the Savage. Now today I have the chance to look at their flagship SSD the Predator. The Predator is an M.2 x4 drive that is available with and without a PCI Express card to M.2 adapter. For our testing today I will be using it with the adapter to see what everyone can expect for performance, but if your PC supports a x4 M.2 slot you can save yourself a lot of space and keep a PCIe slot open by running the drive through it. M.2 is the replacement for mSATA. Running the drive over M.2 gives a direct connection to the CPU and when run in a x4 configuration it gives us up to 20GB/s bandwidth. In other words for the first time in a long time we aren't limited by the SATA connection. With that I'm extremely excited to see what the Predator is capable of!

http://lanoc.org/review/storage/7056...ie-g2-x4-480gb

11th May 2015, 08:14	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,462	HyperX Predator M.2 PCIe G2 x4 480GB @ LanOC Reviews Last week I took a look at Kingston's latest HyperX SATA SSD the Savage. Now today I have the chance to look at their flagship SSD the Predator. The Predator is an M.2 x4 drive that is available with and without a PCI Express card to M.2 adapter. For our testing today I will be using it with the adapter to see what everyone can expect for performance, but if your PC supports a x4 M.2 slot you can save yourself a lot of space and keep a PCIe slot open by running the drive through it. M.2 is the replacement for mSATA. Running the drive over M.2 gives a direct connection to the CPU and when run in a x4 configuration it gives us up to 20GB/s bandwidth. In other words for the first time in a long time we aren't limited by the SATA connection. With that I'm extremely excited to see what the Predator is capable of! http://lanoc.org/review/storage/7056...ie-g2-x4-480gb

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